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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

138 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 7

Women Found in Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1944 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Tuesday. — Called to the Shortland Hotel, Newcastle, last night, Sergeant D. Yardy saw Emma Elizabeth…

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Offensive Behaviour In Hotel Bar

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 September 1944 · page 3

KURRI Wednesday. At Kurri Kurri Court to-day, before Mr. I. Beavers, PM, Robert Richard Bums, 37, pleaded guilty to a…

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Trouble at Hotels Doors Smashed

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 September 1944 · page 3

NEWCASTLE. Mon —John Thomas Fitzgerald (36), engineer, was fined £1, with £1 15/ compensation or 12 days in the…

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License for Station 2Hd Statement by Bishop of Newcastle

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 September 1944 · page 2

The State Council of the Returned Soldiers' League has decided to ask the Postmaster-General, Senator Ashley, to reply to-day to a…

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Hotels and Coupons. Discussion at Licensing Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 September 1944 · page 3

The question whether the Court should interest itself in the granting of food coupons was discussed at the special Licensing Court at…

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Closing of Hotels At Armistice

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 September 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY Friday—The president (Mr. N. Connolly) stated that the ULVA had notified the Federal Government that…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 3

The Peence of the Station Hotel. Kurri Kurri, has been transferred from Roy Townsend to Evelyn Sophia Kincaid…

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Tragedy at Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thurs—A man has been detained in connection with the finding of the body of George Bins 40 a farmer of…

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Fluff Found in Hotel Mattresses

Maitland Mercury · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Friday — The hearing was continued in the Summons Court today of the case in which Joseph Aberaham,…

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Schnapps Were Adulterated Licensee Fined

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 September 1944 · page 1

NEWCASTLE Wed.—Roy Bede Mahony, licensee of the Volunteer Hotel, West Maitland, in the Summons Court this afternoon,…

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£20 Fine For Betting In Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 October 1944 · page 1

NEWCASTLE Monday. — For betting in the Marquis of Lome Hotel at Lambton on Saturday, Leo Patrick Gardiner (34), lab…

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Move to Extend Hotel Trading Hours

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 4 October 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY Wed.—There is likely to be an early move have trading hours of New South Wales hotels extended soon as the war ends, And Government members expect an amending Liquor Bill to be one of the first post-war…

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Drinking Hours in Hotels Attempt to Avoid "6 O'clock Swill"

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 October 1944 · page 2

Announcing that the United Licensed Victuallers Association was advocating changed drinking hours to avoid "the 6 o'clock…

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Five Hotels Sufficient for Town After War Opinion of Police Sergeant Comments in Quarterly Licensing Court

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 October 1944 · page 2

In the local quarterly Licensing Court yesterday, Sergt. J. Dwyer stated that although it was not for him to say, he considered that…

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Taxi Licenses

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 October 1944 · page 3

Kearsley Council has approved licenses to F. G. Parsons to operate in the Abernethy-Keareley area, and C. E. Snape, of Weston…

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Hotels at Singleton Licensing Report

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1944 · page 5

SINGLETON Sat—When he presented his report to the quarterly licensing court Sgt J. Dwyer was asked by police…

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Publican’s Tax Breaches

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 October 1944 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Wed—Michael Tobin, licensee of the Beach Hotel, Merewether, pleaded guilty in the Summons Court…

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Licensed Club for Cessnock?

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 31 October 1944 · page 1

The Chief Secretary (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) has promised the Cessnock A.L.P. that he will endeavour to get the Minister for Justice (Mr…

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Has the License

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 31 October 1944 · page 2

It has been stated by a competent authority that a license has been, granted to Rover Motors Ltd., by the Transport Board…

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Providing Meals at Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 October 1944 · page 1

NEWCASTLE Tuesday.—“It is the desire of the licensing bench,” said Mr. Carr-Boyd, LM, to-day, “that all licensees shall…

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